Q&A - PSLE English

[janet88]

pixiedust:

My take is that practise is needed to improve on composition writing and the children are not getting enough of that during school hours. Outside school hours, they need to practise writing regularly on their own (one way is using method used by R). I think improvements will be faster if someone is able to mark their practise work correctly and plan improvement steps before the next piece of practise.

Hope to hear everyone's feedback.

It's hard for the school teacher to give more practice for compo. But if teachers can compile a booklet of good ones written by students, that would be great reading material to learn. Compo is an area which parents are not able to correct unlike grammar or vocab which has answers provided.
I've signed up my son for compo writing class...starting this Sunday and I really hope his writing skills will improve. His compo is very borderline pass.

Any mummies here know how to improve comprehension cloze as well as comprehension OE ?

[Brenda10]

pixiedust:

My take is that practise is needed to improve on composition writing and the children are not getting enough of that during school hours. Outside school hours, they need to practise writing regularly on their own (one way is using method used by R). I think improvements will be faster if someone is able to mark their practise work correctly and plan improvement steps before the next piece of practise.

Hope to hear everyone's feedback.

I also agree that must write at least once a week outside school hour to get a better result. Recently dd teacher wants them to memorize certain given EL passage for weekly (something similar like CL mo xie ) test and I think this will also help in the long run.

[pixiedust]

Brenda10:

... Recently dd teacher wants them to memorize certain given EL passage for weekly (something similar like CL mo xie ) test and I think this will also help in the long run.

That's great effort on the teacher's part to prepare the passages, spend time in class and marking the work. Let's hope we don't open a can of worms here to debate about memorising......... :lol:




I need help with this grammar question :
Appreciate if anyone can explain the reason for the correct answer :

Never before had anyone in the school swim/swam/swum/swims as fast as he had that day.

[pecalis]

pixiedust:

Brenda10:

... Recently dd teacher wants them to memorize certain given EL passage for weekly (something similar like CL mo xie ) test and I think this will also help in the long run.

That's great effort on the teacher's part to prepare the passages, spend time in class and marking the work. Let's hope we don't open a can of worms here to debate about memorising......... :lol:




I need help with this grammar question :
Appreciate if anyone can explain the reason for the correct answer :

Never before had anyone in the school swim/swam/swum/swims as fast as he had that day.

Had swum - just my logical guess as I no English expert

[anneshirleygilbert]

Never before had anyone in the school swim/swam/swum/swims as fast as he had that day.


The answer should be 'swum' as the sentence is written in the past perfect tense : \"had swum\".

Sometimes, students are unable to see the connection as \"had\" is separated from \"swum\" by a string of words; in this case, \"anyone in the school\".

Hope this helps.

[fxchow]

Hi All,


Can someone tell me the correct answer?

Question:
So you believe that my idea is workable, _________?

Answer is 1) do you OR 2) don’t you?

Thanks!

fxchow

[anneshirleygilbert]

fxchow:

Hi All,


Can someone tell me the correct answer?

Question:
So you believe that my idea is workable, _________?

Answer is 1) do you OR 2) don't you?

Thanks!

fxchow

The answer should be (2) don't you?

[fxchow]

anneshirleygilbert:

fxchow:

Hi All,


Can someone tell me the correct answer?

Question:
So you believe that my idea is workable, _________?

Answer is 1) do you OR 2) don't you?

Thanks!

fxchow

The answer should be (2) don't you?

Hi anneshirleygilbert,

Thanks!
My girl's answer also the same.
But, the answer provided is (1). :?

[ridcully]

fxchow:

anneshirleygilbert:

[quote=\"fxchow\"]Hi All,


Can someone tell me the correct answer?

Question:
So you believe that my idea is workable, _________?

Answer is 1) do you OR 2) don't you?

Thanks!

fxchow

The answer should be (2) don't you?

Hi anneshirleygilbert,

Thanks!
My girl's answer also the same.
But, the answer provided is (1). :?[/quote]The answer is (1).

Whilst it is true that question tags usually have the basic structure of positive-negative or negative-positive, it is possible to use a positive-positive or negative-negative structure. This is normally when we are not really asking a question but in fact making a statement or issuing an imperative command. Quite an advanced concept for PSLE standard though! Consider the following:

Let's go, shall we?

Close the door, would you?

Do it now, will you?

So you passed the PSLE, did you?

So you think that's amusing, do you?

Rgds
R

[anneshirleygilbert]

ridcully:

fxchow:

[quote=\"anneshirleygilbert\"]
The answer should be (2) don't you?

Hi anneshirleygilbert,

Thanks!
My girl's answer also the same.
But, the answer provided is (1). :?

The answer is (1).

Whilst it is true that question tags usually have the basic structure of positive-negative or negative-positive, it is possible to use a positive-positive or negative-negative structure. This is normally when we are not really asking a question but in fact making a statement or issuing an imperative command. Quite an advanced concept for PSLE standard though! Consider the following:

Let's go, shall we?

Close the door, would you?

Do it now, will you?

So you passed the PSLE, did you?

So you think that's amusing, do you?

Rgds
R[/quote]Hi RCully,

I see your point... and agree with you, but I find it pretty disturbing when such 'exceptions' are not taught to the students, best I know, at least. My daughter is in P5, are these exceptions covered in P6, do you know? Just wonder if students are graded within the P6 curriculum. Or is this another of the \"teach less, learn more\" areas where the learning falls on the student to discover on his own? Pls help, if you can.

Tks.